Poets and performers who have appeared at events run by Farrago Poetry over the years include: Talaam Acey, Adisa, Patience Agbabi, Joe Ambrose, The Asheville Slam Team, (US National Champions), Penny Ashton, Francesca Beard, Caroline Bird, Rachel Blythe, Mahogany Browne, Cheryl B(urke), Ainsley Burrows, Sally Pomme Clayton, John Cooper-Clarke, Bob Cobbing, Jasmine Cooray, Charlie Dark, Julia Darling, Dizraeli, Evert Eden, Zena Edwards, Simone Felice, Floetry, Abraham Gibson, Andrea Gibson, Salena Godden, Saran Green, Suheir Hammad, AF Harrold, John Hegley, Kurt Heintz, Joe Hernandez-Kolski, Michael Horovitz, Kathleen Jamie, Keith Jarrett, JC001, Patricia Johnson, (US National Slam Champion), Mimi Khalvati, Shane Koyczan, (US National Slam Champion), Fran Landesman, Jacob Sam La Rose, Taylor Mali, Jeff McDaniel, Aoife Mannix, Mario Iván Martínez, Hollie McNish, (The UK SLAM! Champion), Agnes Meadows, Crysse Morrison, Eska Mtungwazi, Caroline Nderitu, Courttia Newland, Osaygefo, Niall O'Sullivan, Pierre Ringwald, Deanna Rodger, Zadie Smith, Niall Spooner-Harvey, Alexis Strum, Ross Sutherland, Dudley Sutton, Tantra, Steve Tasane, Thom (The World Poet), Tim Turnbull, Buddy Wakefield, (US & double World Slam Champion), Mark Walton, (London SLAM! Champion) & Kate Wirsing, (US National Slam Champion).
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At a Farrago SLAM! ANY style of poetry is welcome, read or performed, ANY number of poems can be presented in the slot and EVERY poet wins a PRIZE! Our events are always open for poets to turn up and sign up on the night and if there is not a slam there is always an open mic.
Our feature performers come from every poetry tradition, community and corner of the globe, from concrete to hip hop, jazz to traditional on the page and beyond. Our nights have also featured many different languages, not just English and our Spanish language and International events are an important part of our programme.
We also regularly feature music, prose, drama and performance art to explore the possibility of the spoken word!
Farrago Poetry are the UK's SLAM! Poetry Pioneers, organising the first poetry slam in the UK in February 1994, The London SLAM! Championships, easily Europe's longest running and setting up the UK SLAM! Championships in the same year. We also co organised the first poetry slam International events and tours in 1995 & 1996 between London, San Francisco and Asheville, here and in the US. Farrago also runs other events including regular Spanish Language nights and the annual Farrago Festival of Spoken Word.
Farrago has staged literally hundreds of events and featured and given performance and reading opportunities to thousands of poets over the 16 years we have been staging shows. We have run events for festivals including West End Live and Bradford Alternative Festival and in venues from the ICA to Hastings Castle. Our regular monthly events take place at the RADA Foyer Bar, the SLAM! is open to ANY poet, any style or subject, read or perform and every poet wins a prize! The nights also feature top poets, London, UK & International, representing a huge diversity of styles, communities & voices.
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thankyou for Inviting us My name is J Rokka..J Rokka Productions i personally, cant make it as im going to Argentina in two days but i'll let the others know peace and love in the oneness of Mother Earth bless
Hello John-Paul and the Farrago team. Thankyou for my lovely frame, it's now sitting proudly on my shelf, and the frame and certificate both match the furntiutre, how about that?? Looking foreward to the next instalment
Hey!! Good thanks, I'm doing my Royal Court writers programme every thurs evening til august now, so I'm going to try and come down afterward to at least catch an hour or so to hear the HeAvY features and open micers - so hopefully see you later...just late. Hope all is well x
hey, i may come back at some point during the summer but i'm not sure as to if and when as its been quite busy over here. you will for sure be the first to know if so. also i'm working with three other poets on a uk tour in october, have a look at skint in my top friends. speak soon xx p
aw man... you're doing a love slam??? that sounds ace, sorry i'll miss it. but think i may be back first week of march for a week if you've got an event then. xx p.
Thanks for the heads up John Paul. We are back and we'll be emailing you very soon about our first event. Your Freshers Slam sounds fantastic, hope that it goes down well on the night. Take care, Tolu :)
